I was able to get some help on one of the support forums [Kernel & Hardware] sorry, I sould have read the guidelines for this forum prior to posting , and found that the script does umount the /boot file. So all I had to do was mount my /boot back to /dev/hda1.
Thanks again for your help,
Dino

Just used this way after a resize of my / partition (the last on the disk and reiserfs, needs to backup and restore...)

After restore process:

/mnt directory was empty, I had to recreate manually some dirs.
(i.e.: #mkdir /mnt/cdrom )
needed to reemerge splashutils (#emerge --oneshot splashutils)
and then to follow the emerge info to recreate the fake /dev/tty1 dev in
the boot partition

Now it seems to run properly
(the first two emerge sync were kinda strange, first one "from chroot" interrupted on metacache computing,
second one from my system updated all the profiles from 2003 to 2005. now even emerge sync seems to
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I'm considering removing Windows completely from this machine, which is currently installed in hda1 and takes approx 5 GB. hda2 is /boot, hda3 is swap, hda4 is / . Will it be necessary to make adjustments to the backup images once the partition table changed and I want to restore them? All the partititons will decrease 1 unit (hda2 -> hda1, etc) and hda4 will be /var/cache/squid/

hey all, i'd love to use this script, I am just a little confused about something...

i don't see /etc as being backed up, why is /etc not backed up since /etc/conf.d and /etc/init.d contain all of our startup scripts and configurations??

does this mean that everything in my home directory will NOT be saved during a minimal backup? What if I want my home directories to be included during minimal backup? Can I take "/home/*" out of here?

about your question of including home in a minimal backup - yes, this is the way to go (remove it from custom_include_list and it will be backed up anytime). to see what is actually being stored run the script in verbose mode (--verbose/-v). /etc is backed-up of course. the script uses a find command (as this allows a lot more finetuning as just listing folders).

to see if your backup worked read "Re-assemble split-ed stage4" in the first post.

about your enormous stage4 - it seems like you didn't exclude a big movie/mp3/download folder. it could be that the find command does not work correctly though. if you could have a further look into this you could help us all._________________Easily backup up your system? klick
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no matter what i do, it keeps backing up my mp3s, I did a verbose mode on it, and i saw it backing up my .mp3 files under the directory /home/hedpe/server/mp3s/an-album/here.mp3, even with these settings:

please use the script in its original state once again. then, do a custom backup and chose your home to back up. add your desired exclude extensions to custom_exclude_pattern (not default_exclude_pattern):

hmm, I made a stage 4 when i was about 1/2 through custumizing, then i got done messing with config files and went straight to installing extras. Now i'd like to make another stage4 but this time, instead of bieng a little under a gig, it ran for abou 2 hours and when i checked to see what was goin on, it had 11 cds worth of zips already... did it screw up, or do I have to manually tell it to leave some directory out that it doesnt by default and for some reason, that dir is huge on my system? I'm using --split and then 3 any help on decreasing the size of the zips would be greatly appreciated, although I wouldn't mind a full backup.. i have a 4x cdr

please use the script in its original state once again. then, do a custom backup and chose your home to back up. add your desired exclude extensions to custom_exclude_pattern (not default_exclude_pattern):

hmm, I made a stage 4 when i was about 1/2 through custumizing, then i got done messing with config files and went straight to installing extras. Now i'd like to make another stage4 but this time, instead of bieng a little under a gig, it ran for abou 2 hours and when i checked to see what was goin on, it had 11 cds worth of zips already... did it screw up, or do I have to manually tell it to leave some directory out that it doesnt by default and for some reason, that dir is huge on my system? I'm using --split and then 3 any help on decreasing the size of the zips would be greatly appreciated, although I wouldn't mind a full backup.. i have a 4x cdr

the script does backup everything on your computer - except those folder you excplicitly exclude or which are excluded by default. so, if you have created a folder like /mp3 or /backup it will backup this folder if you don't add it to the exclude list (now it depends on your choice where to add that folder)._________________Easily backup up your system? klick
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but i cant think of anywhere I've aded stuff besides in /home/fuag :\ I let portage handle pretty much everything and if it doesnt handle it, im sure to keep the program in a place I can see in case I want to delete it, I have quite a bit of game files in /opt such as quake3 doom3 ut2k4 and loads of mods for them but doesnt the sqript auto exclude /opt

EDIT: Lol, finished my work and checked... wow, apperently it doesnt... ima go tell it to leave out the games sorry for the posts

I have been using the backup script quite alot...but every damn one past xorg breaks. I think it has to do with xdm......but it might not the be script...but it works before i backup.....anyone run into this problem, and fix it?

First of all I'd like to thank you for taking the time to both write and subsequently enhance this script. It has saved me many hours of work trying to reconfigure weird and wonderful hardware (epkowa scanner,gps,wifi etc). I have noticed a few peculiarities on a freshly restored system however.

Apache fails to start due to /var/log/apache2 missing.
Mysql fails to start (still working on the solution to this one) , mysqld (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) fails to start.
Vmware-workstation fails to start, symptoms as descibed in this forum link https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-381798-highlight-vmware.html , solution works.
Xfont Server updates FC cache and loads in fonts on every boot. Previously this only happened when adding a new font-set to /etc/X11/fs/config (I run xfs). This one bugs me the most as it takes an age for the Computer to boot.

I'm sure there is probably a simple solution to all these quirks, but as a non-programmer its a bit beyond me.

Any thoughts/suggestions/slaps on the back of the head are most welcome

i run into very similar problems while backing up my server and restoring the stage4 on new hardware. i simply couldn't get tomcat to start up again. i can't have a look into it until the next 4 weeks have passed - bear with me, i'll have a look into it._________________Easily backup up your system? klick
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